Health Screening for Emerging and Non-Communicable Disease Burdens Among the Global Poor
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health screening
hypertension
non-communicable diseases
regression discontinuity design
matching estimator
low-income countries
Malawi
African Studies
Demography, Population, and Ecology
Family, Life Course, and Society
Inequality and Stratification
Medicine and Health
Sociology
hypertension
non-communicable diseases
regression discontinuity design
matching estimator
low-income countries
Malawi
African Studies
Demography, Population, and Ecology
Family, Life Course, and Society
Inequality and Stratification
Medicine and Health
Sociology
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This brief is supported by the Penn Population Aging Research Center, funded by the National Institute on Aging (2P30AG012836-26).
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Among adults in rural Malawi, population health screening for high blood pressure (BP) led to a 22-percentage point drop in the likelihood of being hypertensive four years later. Individuals with elevated BP received a referral letter upon initial screening; at follow-up, they had lower BP and higher self-reported mental health than individuals with similar BP who were just below the threshold for referral. Population health screenings can reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases in low-income countries.
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2021-01-26
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This research brief is a summary of the following article published in a journal: Ciancio, Alberto, fabrice Kämpfen, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Iliana V. Kohler. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2020.102388 Health Screening for Emerging Non-Communicable Disease Burdens Among the Global Poor: Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Health Economics https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2020.102388. View On LDI Website (https://ldi.upenn.edu/brief/health-screening-emerging-and-non-communicable-disease-burdens-among-global-poor)